My fogged mirror
My topped tree
My cloved orange
My minor chord
My dry rot
My dead god
My baby tooth
My dark rune
My cold war
My lingerie drawer
My lost earring
My boiled seed
My apostle spoon
My spare room
My dropped stitch
My rosemary sprig
My migraine aura
My white caesura
My weather bone
My candle smoke
My missing time
My second sight
My fossil forest
My first hoarfrost
My failed crop
My gray aubade
My abandoned shrine
My pilot light

 

 

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CONSTANCE HANSEN is Managing Editor of Poetry Northwest. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: RHINO, West Branch, Harvard Review Online, Southern Humanities Review, Four Way Review, The Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Northwest Review, Vallum, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Seattle, she lives in Paris.

 

The art that appears alongside this piece is by AMY RENEE WEBB.